An unexpected error occurred while connecting Node

[EliasCouma]

An unexpected error occurred while connecting Node(identifier=, uri=, status=NodeStatus.CONNECTING, players=0) to Lavalink: "" If this error persists or wavelink is unable to reconnect, please see: https://github.com/PythonistaGuild/Wavelink/issues"

Not 100% sure why this is happening, especially as it's not giving me a specific reason "Lavalink: "" "

[chillymosh]

@EliasCouma Please make sure you are running Lavalink 4 - currently you need to use this hotfixed version: https://repo.lavalink.dev/artifacts/lavalink/fe62703c/Lavalink.jar

Also, when trying to connect, make sure the URI has the protocol prefix of http://

[EliasCouma]

Yeah, sadly still getting the same error

[chillymosh]

You'll need to provide some more information.

• Is Lavalink running?
• What's the application.yaml settings?
• Is the yaml in in the same directory as the .jar?
• Are you calling java -jar Lavalink.jar with a terminal inside the actual directory and not outside it?
• If this is all local on the same machine then the yaml can be set to 127.0.0.1 and the URI = http://127.0.0.1:port

[EliasCouma]

• Yes
• All settings still defaulted, except for the port and address
• Yes
• Yes

Also getting the same error attempting to connect to a node that's not even online

[chillymosh]

You'll have to show your code, ideally by joining the Discord. I have a suspicion you are entering a race condition by trying to connect in the wrong event / place.

It either has to be in the Bot subclass setup_hook or in the cog_load of a Cog of which the extension containing the Cog is loaded within the setup_hook

[EliasCouma]

You're absolutely right! I moved it into my setup hook and it works now, silly me. Thank you!